"Lounge chair" redirects here. For the Swiss-French film, see Lounge Chair (film). An 18th-century rococo chaise longue A late 19th-century chaise longue A chaise longue (English ;[1] French pronunciation: [ʃɛz lɔ̃ɡ], "long chair") is an upholstered sofa in the shape of a chair that is long enough to support the legs. In modern French the term chaise longue can refer to any long reclining chair such as a deckchair. A literal translation in English is "long chair". In the United States the term lounge chair is also used to refer to any long reclining chair. In the United States, chaise longue is nearly always written "chaise lounge" and pronounced /tʃeɪsˈlaʊndʒ/, the first constituent a spelling pronunciation, the second a 19th-century folk-anagrammatic adaptation of French longue. The chaise longue has traditionally been associated with psychoanalysis and many psychoanalysts continue to keep chaises longues in their offices for use in psychotherapy.
Chaise longue in a 4th-century Roman manuscript It is thought that the first blend of a chair and daybed originated in Egypt. The earliest known models were made from palm sticks lashed together with pieces of cord or rawhide. Later, Egyptian bed-makers introduced mortise-and-tenon construction and wood bed frames veneered with ivory or ebony, in common use with many examples being found in the 1st dynasty (3100–2890 BC) tombs. Ancient Greek art depicts gods and goddesses lounging in this type of chair. The modern Greek word symposion comes from sympinein, which means "to drink together". In ancient Greece this word conveyed the idea of a party with music and conversation. The principal item of furniture for a symposium is the kline, a form of daybed. The Greeks changed from the normal practice of sitting at a table to the practice of reclining on couches as early as the 8th century BC. The Romans also used a daybed for reclining in the daytime and to sleep on at night.
Developed from the Greek prototype, the Roman daybed was designed with legs carved in wood or cast bronze. The Romans also adapted a chaise longue style chair for the accubatio (the act of reclining during a meal). At Roman banquets, the usual number of persons occupying each bed was three, with three daybeds forming three sides of a small square, so that the triclinium (the dining-room of a Roman residence) allowed for a party of nine.[3] The Romans did not practice upholstery, so the couches were made comfortable with pillows, loose covers and animal skins. ^ Dictionary Reference: chaise longue ^ a b c ^ Past and Present: The Chaise Longue ^ a b c Is a recamier the same as a chaise longue? retrieved Feb 9, 2009 Word of the Day Nearby words for chaise longueThe word you've entered isn't in the dictionary. Click on a spelling suggestion below or try again using the search bar above. Word not found in the Dictionary and Encyclopedia. Please try the words separately:
Some articles that match your query: Chairwoman of the Council of State of Liberia Chairwomen of the Board Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology Chaitanya Educational and Rural Development Society Chaitanya Jyothi Welfare SocietyA chaise longue is a kind of sofa with only one arm and usually a back along half its length. a long low chair for reclining, with a back and single armrest Word origin of 'chaise longue' a couchlike chair with a back support and a seat long enough to support outstretched legs Example sentences containing 'chaise longue' But they can also use a chaise longue. 2011)Do you want this chaise longue? 2014)The Fifties leather chaise longue was bought in Brussels. 2015)Made for legs that rarely leave the chaise longue, they cost 200 a pair. 2006)SAVE You know you're properly grown up when your drawing room contains a chaise longue. 2007)It's a lifestyle shift that demands tables to take a laptop, or a sofa with a chaise longue feature to provide personal surfing space.
2013)I arrange myself on the chaise longue and I try to keep still. A form of sofa with a backrest at one end only. 'Chaise lounge' appears to be a very early example of an eggcorn, dating from long before eggcorns were given a name. [Note: eggcorns are words or phrases which have been coined mistakenly, often due to an incorrect guess as to how a word is spelled, but one which makes some kind of sense; for example, Old-Timer's Disease for Alzheimer's Disease and daring-do for derring-do.] The misspelling 'chaise lounge' is the object of much derision outside the USA. 'Chaise lounge', also sometimes spelled 'chase lounge', began life as such a linguistic mistake and has survived because it does make intuitive sense. The piece of furniture in question is properly called a 'chaise longue'. The name is of French origin, of course, and has been known there since the 18th century, translating into English simply as 'long chair' - which is just what it is. The understandability of the misspelling of 'longue' as 'lounge' is that lounging is what one does on these sofas and the supposed translation of 'lounging chair' makes perfect sense.
The spelling and pronunciation as 'chaise lounge' is largely limited to America. It is so well-established there that it is far too late to turn back the clock - only the most foolhardy of visitors to the USA would attempt to flag it as a mistake. The confusion for those outside America is added to by the fact that those items of garden or poolside furniture which are known in most other English-speaking countries as a 'sun-loungers', are also often called 'chaise lounges' in the USA. Those English-speakers from the Mother Country who look down on this as a typical mangling of the language by those uncultured Yanks might be dismayed to find that the earliest known citation of the 'chaise lounge' spelling comes from no less a bastion of 'proper' English than The Times newspaper. The January 16th 1807 edition included an advert for An Assemblage of truly elegant furniture, fitted up in the most modern style, and this includes the offer of "sofas, chaise lounge, loo tables" etc. The earliest citation that I can find from America, and which appears to refer to a 'sun-lounger', is in the 4th January 1875 edition of The Newport Daily News: